Wild Rovers (1971)

Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows. When one of their fellow cowboys is killed in a corral accident, Post suggests a way into a better life for himself and his friend: robbing a bank. Bodine reluctantly joins in the plan and the two contrive to rob the local bank. They make good their escape initially, but Walt Buckman and his two sons, John and Paul, are incensed at this betrayal by their own trusted employees. John and Paul set out to bring Bodine and Post to justice.

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Top billed cast

William HoldenRoss Bodine
Ryan O'NealFrank Post
Karl MaldenWalter Buckman
Lynn CarlinSada Billings
Tom SkerrittJohn Buckman
Joe Don BakerPaul Buckman
Geoffrey EdwardsAttendant's Son
James OlsonJoe Billings
Leora DanaNell Buckman
Moses GunnBen

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